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One of the scariest movies ever

posted 18 years ago by bluffcreek
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I saw this in 1972 in Enid, Oklahoma. I scared me then and it scares me now. Couldn't resist that. Now I'm in my forties and every now and then, I'll have a dream about it and I'm back in the 2nd grade, terrified all over again.
When I watch it now, it's very poorly done. But that's not the point. It's a reminder of my childhood when imagination ruled.
So no matter how it's panned, it's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
I'll probably have a dream about it now...ha ha

[–] inkyblck 18 years ago

I feel the same way about 1975's "Beyond The Door" ...

Boggy Creek could never be duplicated, it is a low budget classic ...

[–] cluin 18 years ago

More like one of the funniest movies ever.

I love this film. I have to watch it every once in a while, especially when I need a good laugh. I love the way it actually takes itself so seriously.

And was it a Crabtree family project or something? Right down to the comedic genius of the "song" plunked into the middle of the proceedings, about when it decided to change direction from documentary to horror flick.

[–] rodeolovechild 18 years ago

Ironically, one of my best friends from childhood is in this movie. Aaron Ball played the little boy, his father was the art director for the film. Aaron is now the brain behind www.thinkstreamfilms.com and working on projects with stars you know and love, including Paul Williams and Jessica Harper!

[–] boiofthemoon 18 years ago

I agree with you bluffcreek, I'm 41 and the thought of this movie brings back childhood nightmares. As a kid, Boggy Creek ran through our back pasture so after seeing the movie I would break into a cold sweat anytime there was a leaf crackling behind me outside the house. Of course by today's standards it does seem cheap and often times hilarious but as a pre-internet and cable kid, subjected to 8mm home movies every holiday the footage on screen seemed real enough to me at the time. I am a huge horror/slasher fan owning over 300 dvd titles in that genre and am not afraid to go camping, have promiscious sex, look under the bed, drive a van through texas, and renact those and other 80's horror movie cliche...but I still WON'T walk down Boggy Creek.

[–] bobaboi-1 18 years ago

I agree, this movie scared me when it came out, and still does 35 years later.
just seeing the poster gives me goose bumps.

[–] JannesJambres 18 years ago

Yeah, It scared the hell out of me when I was a kid and it was all the rage then. I can't believe this film got such a low rating. Must be the younger generation of idiots.

[–] bigreddwolf 18 years ago

Me and my friends just saw this movie a few months ago, but we were out in the middle of nowhere watching the dvd in the trailor during a thunderstorm... It was kind of funny to watch all of us big guys get freiked out every time a branch hit the door or the wind blew hard... Not to mention one of my buddies almost having a heart attack when something hit the bathroom window... he ran out of there faster than I've ever seen him run..

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[–] matthew-543 18 years ago

Couldn't agree more. Only saw the film once, when it was shown on BBC2 about 25 years ago. Terrified my little brother and me. And of course the next day the film was the talk of the playground.

[–] bluffcreek 18 years ago

Yeah, combine this movie with Mysterious Monsters and it made for a really scary childhood.

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[–] XfilesMystic 18 years ago

Does anyone believe the creature really does exist???

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[–] bluffcreek 18 years ago

I saw this movie as a kid and in my kid-mind, I believed it was true. Then in the 3rd grade, we moved to Northern California. We lived 15 miles from where Roger Patterson filmed his famous Bluff Creek movie.
That was 30 years ago.
I heard some weird things in the mountains. We all heard a loud scream that sounded like the tornado sirens we hear now in Oklahoma. It cut all the way down the valley. All the kids were talking about it the next day at school. They said it was a Bigfoot.
There's a bunch of stories like that.
I seen some weird things too.

[–] blue7 17 years ago

I saw this movie on TV when I was 6 or 7, 30 years or so ago. It scared the living crap out of me. Even though I was in Stockton, CA, I was sure the monster would run all the way over from Fouke, AR just to get me!

[–] hendrsb33 12 years ago

It's funny that you mention that you're from Stockton. My maternal grandparents lived there and my sister and I would spend a large part of our childhood summers staying with them.

I remember being in Stockton when BOGGY CREEK was still in theaters. The movie poster of that shambling beast was featured in the newspaper movie section and it was enough to scare me! It wasn't until it appeared on tv a few years later that I actually got to see the movie.

Even though it's cheaply done and full of "cheese", I still love the movie enough to own it on dvd.

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

I like to believe it could exist, that there's a Loch Ness creature, etc., etc. It takes life beyond the mundane, and we're so saturated with science that it seems most of the mysteries that make life interesting are gone.

And for that reason I despise Myth Busters.

[–] mpalus 15 years ago

Yes! This scene from Mysterious Monsters was in a commercial I saw when I was 5 or 6 years old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiQXnR1J7Jg

My whole family was in the den watching TV after dinner. I saw this and I'm pretty sure I ran screaming out of the room!

(Same thing happened the first time I saw the commercial for Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Just the words body snatchers-body snatchers-body snatchers scared the *beep* out of me!)

[–] karawolf 11 years ago

Was the guy with the rifle Bernard in Billy Jack?

[–] BigBadBobby 18 years ago

check out "The Creature From Black Lake" (NOT black lagoon)
Same film time....same idea....NOW that scared me back then.

[–] warrior1967 18 years ago

I totally agree. When I was a child in the 1970's, I remember hearing news reports about Bigfoot and getting a creeped out feeling everytime. I saw Boggy on tv and it still, even today, kind of gets me and I am 39. I love the documentary feel to it and the fact that it is low budget and grainy only adds to the atmosphere. I feel the same way about Creature from Black Lake.

[–] baker_paul30 18 years ago

i saw this when l was 10 on BBC2 in the Uk. It was on at around 6pm and my mate and l watched it at my Grandparents. We kacked ourselves. We had to walk home past some woods ( forest to you USA folk) and we ran quicker than some olympic athletes. It still gives me the shakes today, especially when the hand comes in through the toilet window and grabs her hair.

[–] vacousin 18 years ago

Re: Baker-paul reply

Just so you know, we in the US use "woods" and "forest" pretty much interchangably, what we don't use is "kacked." Not sure what you mean there.